The logo - which started in the 1950s - was certainly created to be cute, though it does seem creepily sexualized in a modern context, which is likely why they changed it in recent years. One of the most enduring examples of butt-crack jokes comes from the Coppertone logo, which features a little girl getting her bathing suit pulled down by a dog. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio have some bum-related gags in them, too. You can find butt cracks in Tom and Jerry and even in notoriously conservative Disney cartoons, like Donald Duck.
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There’s also plenty of butt crack humor before 1978, especially in cartoons. There are also literary examples of it being viewed in a sexual manner. There’s also the work of French painter and photographer Julien Vallou de Villeneuve, who features butt cleavage in some of his work, and sometimes more. There’s the ancient Greek statue Venus de Milo, which has a bit of alluring butt cleavage in the rear. Now, I have found numerous older examples of butt cleavage throughout the ages, but generally, that’s been sexual and/or artistic, as opposed to funny. As for the plumber’s crack itself, the farthest back things seem to go is 1978, a mere 40 years ago, but the joke has to be older than that, right? After all, Americans have had bathrooms since the 1910s, and butts themselves are just inherently funny, so I refuse to accept the idea that the plumber’s butt gag isn’t older than 1978. When looking into the puffy toilet seat, I found its origins surprisingly mysterious, and when I wanted to interview plumbers about Super Mario’s retirement from their profession, I was met with dozens of rejections until I ultimately determined that most plumbers don’t give a shit about Mario. Perhaps it’s just my bad luck with plumbing-related topics. Yet, over the past week I’ve been scouring the internet for plumber’s ass cracks - digging deep, deep into that crease to see just how far back the old gag goes - and I can’t seem to find anything that satisfies me in terms of an actual origin. A comedy staple like slipping on a banana peel or getting a pie in the face, the old plumber’s crack image is something that seems to have been around forever.
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